Sunflower seed — Yield in Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Sunflower seed — Yield was 1,012 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sunflower seed — Yield in Afghanistan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Afghanistan recorded 1,012 kg/ha for sunflower seed — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.0% on the previous year and down 45.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Afghanistan peaked at 1,871 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 899.1 kg/ha, in 2019.
That places Afghanistan 65th out of 82 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,619 kg/ha | 1,446 kg/ha | 1,783 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,556 kg/ha | 1,333 kg/ha | 1,790 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,475 kg/ha | 1,436 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,317 kg/ha | 1,200 kg/ha | 1,414 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,401 kg/ha | 1,344 kg/ha | 1,467 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,379 kg/ha | 899.1 kg/ha | 1,871 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,074 kg/ha | 1,012 kg/ha | 1,144 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Afghanistan
- Agriculture share gdp 34.29 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 34.29 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 21.0% (2019)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2019)
- Rural population 74.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.4% (2025)
- Rural population 32.47 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 34.3% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.10 billion current US$ (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Production 1.34 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Afghanistan?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Afghanistan was 1,012 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Afghanistan?
- The highest recorded value was 1,871 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Afghanistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 899.1 kg/ha in 2019.
- How does Afghanistan rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Afghanistan ranks 65th out of 82 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Afghanistan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 45.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Afghanistan data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sunflower seed — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.